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Ashley Yang, Transgender TSA Agent at LAX, Gets Hit on After Being Forced to Frisk Men

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Been a while since we felt sorry for a groping TSA agent, as opposed to ourselves at the mercy of a groping TSA agent. But Ashley Yang got the worst end of this deal: In her lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration, Yang, a very delicate, femmie transgender woman who happened to have been born a man, claims her LAX managers made her wear a manly wig (she chose a short afro; sweet) and use the men's restroom -- then fired her when she didn't.

Worst of all...

... Yang found herself subjected to sexual harassment by the men she was forced to grope, under the TSA's narrow-minded "same-sex pat down" guidelines. (Pollyanna: "At least they didn't twist your boob!")

She tells the AP that various skeezebags passing through the L.A. terminal said things like, "I haven't had a girl touch me for a long time," or, "Does this mean you are going to buy me dinner?"

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Really guys?

After terminating Yang for using the women's bathroom, TSA managers at LAX have been sent off to sensitivity training (because we know how well that works), and the plaintiff has been awarded a "five-figure award for pain and suffering." But the real debate at the core of her story: When does one stop being a man and start being a woman, and does that require surgery?

In the case of airline passengers, U.S. Passport gender need only be determined by "a doctor's letter stating they have undergone a gender transition, which may have included psychological counseling and hormones," according to the AP. But birth certificates and social-security records can't be modified until proof of surgery is provided. And despite Yang's ordeal, no clear-cut guidelines have been set for TSA staff.

What do you think: Should Yang have been allowed to frisk the fairer sex, despite her estranged man-parts?

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Basti Auser
Basti Auser

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Thomas
Thomas

 Stupid insensitive people from TSA!! I hope she got a got bunch of money so she can travel a lot and drive them crazy!!

ReVeLaTeD
ReVeLaTeD

This is a sticky situation.  I'm inclined to lean towards the King Solomon solution.

Transgender or not this person was born male.  Now, if the 100% surgery was done, 100% hormone replacements were done, to the point that a doctor could not tell that one was born male without a blood test, that's one thing...and I would say that  TSA was in the wrong.  But if we're talking about a person who looks and acts female but is truly male?  To me, it's a slippery slope, and one that brings to light the issues around "Don't Ask Don't Tell".  It goes beyond TSA.

There was a high school gym teacher example given.  What about prison guards?  I mean where does it end?

HumaoftheUmmah
HumaoftheUmmah

I feel for this woman.  I used to hate going to the airport, until I decided to just tell the truth to the TSA.  I'm a Muslim woman trapped in a Jewish man's body.  Now they fall all over themsleves to be accomodating to my religious and sexual sensibilities, and usually just do a self pat-down in a private room, then proceed to my gate.  Thank goodness for Barack Obama and his PC police!!

Guest
Guest

i'm sorry but as a woman i don't want him to pat me down either..that's that..and regarding sexual persuasion maybe we do need to know that if someone is patting you down as part of their position. do i want some bulldyke patting me down and getting her jollies off me .. hell no and if i complain she "lingered" i would be possibly arrested for being uncooperative?

Stew
Stew

1) Oh, so you're assuming that you haven't been patted down by a lesbian already and well, sorry, you're just not her type and 2) I'm not the only one now wishing you a lifetime of bulldyke attention and affection phobia, as you clearly have issues with your own sexuality.  "I'm [not] sorry."

HumaoftheUmmah
HumaoftheUmmah

Passengers should have the right to ask a TSA agent what gender they were born as, and then be able to make the decision themselves as to whether or not to allow that particular agent to touch them.

bradh
bradh

Come on she set this up to get paid!  Why would you take a job like that if you don't want to get messed with guy girl or transgender.  She he-- was looking for a payday and if we give it to she - he we will be on the hook for everyone that cries foul.

Penny Sautereau-Fife
Penny Sautereau-Fife

Oh do please go fuck yourself assclown. Given how rarely courts in the USA give a flying fuck about trans women at all? There's next to ZERO chance she sought the job to set up a discrimination lawsuit. Take your bigoted ignorant moron head and... well... nevermind, it's ALREADY up your own ass.

Monalsa Liz-ardo
Monalsa Liz-ardo

She/he should get another job where she/he is comfortable, away from sexual orientation or physical contact issues. i.e. phone CSR for the airport or clerical. Men who made those salty comments were probably uncomfortable. No we can't all be presidents, use our brains to solve these uncommon problems.

Tom
Tom

Thank you, LAWeekly, for respecting her as a transgender.  I'm a guy, personally, but I have a lot of transwomen and transmen friends, and it's really refreshing to see a news article treat a transgender subject as a woman, not as a freak or as a man in a dress.  Transpeople take a lot of harassment from people every single day of their lives.  Thank you for being respectful.

Penny Sautereau-Fife
Penny Sautereau-Fife

Yes, it's so bloody rare to see an article about a transwoman that doesn't do the "Lucielle, who was born Micheal Smithandwesson..." thing. In fact, this might be the first one I've seen in years that doesn't pull the sleazy misgendering crap. Bravo!

Knotmee
Knotmee

there's no such thing as a transgender.  pc made up bullshit.  you are a man, or you are a woman.  you are what you are born with.  sorry if you don't like it.  better luck next time.  if you are a man (even a skinny effeminate man) and dress up like a woman, and dont expect men to comment on that, you are kidding yourself.  accept the consequences for your socially unacceptable actions.

Penny Sautereau-Fife
Penny Sautereau-Fife

No one is born a man or a woman you assclown, we're all born babies. Your bigotry is more socially unacceptable than a trans woman being true to herself ever should be.

Stew
Stew

Ya hear that, everyone? Decades of gender and sexuality studies? ALL HOG WASH.  And all those native American peoples who identify as "two spirit," and the two-gendered Muxes of Mexico and countless Southeast Asians who identify as the other / both gender(s), they're ALL WRONG.  "sorry if you don't like it. better luck next time."  They're merely PC frauds (even if they don't even have "pc" anything in their cultures that far pre-dated the idea of political correctness.)  

Thank you, "knotmee," for knowing everything about gender and the gender identity of others unlike you.  

VickNoo
VickNoo

The TSA is a JOKE. run and manned by complete and total morons.

www.anon-web.it.tc

Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall

Two weeks ago there was a congressional report stating that the TSA was a failure and a waste of $60 billion taxpayers dollars.

BianyRlp
BianyRlp

I just paiid $ 22.89 for an iP a d 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://bit.ly/qhZHAc

RichardWitheney
RichardWitheney

I just paiid $ 22.89 for an iP a d 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://bit.ly/qhZHAc

Michael
Michael

Ashley is transgender. She's technically a girl. Therefore, she should be with the girls. How difficult is that?!

holypig
holypig

So tell me, Can I as a male be a high school women's gym teacher and watch the girls shower? NO! Stop trying to have it both ways. See what happens when you make up your own rules instead of the ones God set down. If you choose to feed your psychotic addictions then take the punishment and shut up!

Penny Sautereau-Fife
Penny Sautereau-Fife

If you were a transitioning transsexual male-to-female woman? Yes, you could be a women's gym teacher, because you'd be a woman. You are however not, evidenced by your ignorant semantics and bigoted verbal gymnastics so no, YOU would just be a man wearing a dress to see naked girls.

Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall

I never had heard of a she male in the small town in which i grew up. The story of how we met would be too long but we became friends. I just saw a warm compassionate individual. it doesn't matter me if Jamie  was born different. Jamie had never had surgery so jamie never tried to be either sex. I thought when i saw her i asked my self why does that beauty not have a boyfriend. I did find out eventually how hard her life had been made by the locals. After for Vietnam  my buddy from back home wrote and told me Jamie had killed herself and had left a letter. It wasn't her choice  to be born with a male organ and a female body. I believe God will see Jamie differently than those in my small community saw Jamie. The last time i saw Jamie, Jamie asked me ,why can't i been seen as a human being? Is that too much to ask?

Anonymous
Anonymous

you realize shes not actually a man right?

Jamie Nova
Jamie Nova

Why is that the religious conservatives are so perverse? Gender and sexuality are determined by biology, as well as social conditioning. Even though there has been some progress in the medical community, ignorance still persists. There are federal and state laws, though ignorance still exists among the very agencies that are supposed to protect all people from discrimination.

Jake
Jake

God doesnt exist.

barry1817
barry1817

So if a gay male is frisked/patted down by a male TSA agent is that sexual in nature?

How about a lesbian being frisked/patted down by a female agent?

Do we need to ask sexual persuasion to determine who pats down who, so that sexual connotations are removed.  what happens if a person doesn't tell the truth about sexual orientation.

Is there an asexual person, that could then be patted down by either sex.

And the list of things about this keeps growing.

Duckykittn
Duckykittn

Soon it's gonna be "You show me yours, and I'll show you mine, then we can continue with our business transaction."..... A person can not be descriminated against in the work place because of gender, sexuality, or sexual orientation, and this case involves all three.

HumaoftheUmmah
HumaoftheUmmah

Barry, As a Muslim woman trapped in a Jewish man's body, I can tell you it's hell!  A Muslim woman won't touch me because I am physically male.  I can't allow a male (Muslim or otherwise) to touch me, because I am actually female.  My Jewish family can't accept that I'm a Muslim (on the inside).  And we won't go into what the Muslims say about the whole thing.At the airport, they just put me alone in a room so I can do a self patdown.  I'm very good at it, and so far haven't found any contraband to turn myself in over.

Dbo90274
Dbo90274

She's kinda' cute . . . Sorry she was treated this way, glad she was able to get her job back and create change for the morons who did this to her.

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